I like this world. I like drinking champagne. I like not smoking. I like Dutch people speaking Dutch.

Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.

At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see that you floated away, too.

I didn't want to look at them, so I looked away, and to look away was to look at Augustus.

Let me just acknowlege that the function of grammar is to make language as efficent and clear and transparent as possible. But if we’re all constantly correcting each other’s grammar and being really snotty about it, then people stop talking because they start to be petrified that they’re going to make some sort of terrible grammatical error and that’s precisely the opposite of what grammar is supposed to do, which is to facilitate clear communication.

I wanted to, you know, get my story out in the world, which, it turns out, is a very misguided notion.

But of course there is always a hamartia and yours is that oh, my God, even though you HAD FREAKING CANCER you give money to a company in exchange for the chance to acquire YET MORE CANCER.